Powerful Learning eCourses

FREE Do It Yourself Web 2.0 Tools eCourse

We are now excited to offer a two-week Do It Yourself Web 2.0 Tools eCourse for FREE! Sign up and you’ll receive an email every day for two weeks with a Web 2.0 tool activity. At the end of the eCourse, you’ll be well on your way to being a Web 2.0 tools master and developing your personal learning network. Sign up here.

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Experiential Mobile Learning eCourse

Computers, wi-fi networks, and smart phones allow 24/7 access to technology and to one another. Mobile devices are used to communicate, make social connections, gather information, and learn more about personal interests.  This course will focus on leveraging young people’s affinity towards and expertise in using these technologies. to create engaging and authentic learning experiences within educational settings.  The emphasis will be on bringing your own device or technology. In this eCourse we will focus on providing the research, rationale, tools, and basic strategies for developing experiential mobile learning. Learn more

Next class starts June 18, 2012

Experiential Mobile Apps eCourse

Computers, wi-fi networks, and smart phones allow 24/7 access to technology and to one another. Mobile devices are used to communicate, make social connections, gather information, and learn more about personal interests.  This course will focus on leveraging young people’s affinity towards and expertise in using these technologies to create engaging and authentic learning experiences within educational settings.  In this eCourse we will focus on exploring apps to address content enrichment and on creating lesson plans enhanced with mobile learning. Learn more

Next class starts July 23, 2012

Engage with The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture

This five-week course will present the Flipped Classroom Model, a model where the video lectures and vodcasts fall within a larger framework of learning activities. It provides a sequence of learning activities based on the learning theories and instructional models of Experiential Learning Cycles.  In this course, you will learn strategies and tools, both technology-based and hands-on, to address the different phases the the Flipped Classroom learning cycle. Learn more

Next class starts June 18, 2012

The Complete Guide for Implementing The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture

This ten-week course will present the Flipped Classroom Model, a model where the video lectures and vodcasts fall within a larger framework of learning activities. It provides a sequence of learning activities based on the learning theories and instructional models of Experiential Learning Cycles.  In this ten-week course, you will learn strategies and tools, both technology-based and hands-on, to address the different phases the the Flipped Classroom learning cycle.  You will also develop your own instructional strategies and lesson plans for implementing the Flipped Classroom within your own work setting. Learn more

Next class starts June 18, 2012

School Communications Toolkit for School Leaders

As technology expands daily, today’s school leaders have a wide array of new communications options at their fingertips. As we explore 21^st Century Skills, ISTE’s NETS for Administrators (NETS•A), Web 2.0 Tools and more, we will discuss how to collaborate and communicate as 21^st Century Leaders both in our school communities and beyond.  Come and learn how you can master 21st Century Leader communications tools and strategies in the School Communications Toolkit for School Leaders eCourse. Learn more

Next class starts July 2, 2012

Reading the Web

The foundations of today’s read/write Web lie in textual practice of the past.  Before there was hypertext, there were words in print – and we still have plenty to learn about them. In this course, we will explore several popular ways of managing the streams of information that come to us as well as the complexity of reading texts both on and off screen. Learn more

Next class starts July 23, 2012

Connected Coaching

The use of coaches to assist educators in becoming more accomplished and subsequently improving student achievement occurs frequently in face to face settings. To meet the needs of today’s connected educators, coaching should also move into online spaces. The Connected Coaching eCourse will prepare you to coach in online spaces, to leverage the affordances of technology for coaching. Learn more

Next class starts June 11, 2012

Connective Writing

The Internet as a medium, or way of communicating, is dynamic, complex, exciting, amazingly diverse, and, in plenty of substantive ways, pretty much nothing new. We have made connections through printed texts and oral stories for generations, other media have filled the gaps between peoples and cultures.  In this eCourse, we will revel in, and experiment with, writing and the power of language, thought, diction and connection to create and discover the world and ourselves. We’ll use some very 1.0 methodologies and some very 2.0 basic tools to think about how we write, what we write, and what we do and don’t do when we write and when we ask students to write for school. Learn more

Next class starts October 1, 2012

Leading Edge Boot Camp

If you are a superintendent, principal, or educational leader you know that your students are using the Web, mobile technologies, and other tools to connect and create social networks. But do you also recognize their transformative potential for learning?

Tackle these questions and challenges with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson at Powerful Learning Practice’s Leading Edge Boot Camp eCourse. This 5-week, practical eCourse is for school leaders who want to understand how 21st Century technologies are challenging curriculum and pedagogy and providing economical new ways for learning. Learn more

Next class starts July 30, 2012

Teaching Online: Becoming a connected educator

Learning today takes place anywhere and anytime. To meet the needs of today’s connected learner, today’s educator needs to be fluent in new media literacies. The Teaching Online: Becoming a Connected Educator eCourse will prepare you to be an online professor, teach online courses in blended environments such as a virtual school, or teaching blended courses in traditional settings. Learn more

Next class starts July 9, 2012

Transformation, One Lesson At A Time

Have you decided you want a change in your curriculum and don’t know where to start? Or feel overwhelmed by all of the new ideas out there? This course will help you start small and integrate 21st Century concepts into one lesson or activity. Learn more

Next class starts July 9, 2012

21st Century-ize Your Curriculum

So you’re convinced that you need to shift your classroom practice to leverage Web 2.0 tools as a powerful learning strategy. But how do you actually do it? In the 21st Century-ize Your Curriculum eCourse, you’ll learn just that. Learn more

Next class starts July 9, 2012

Digital Footprints: Helping Teens Make Smart Choices

In our digital world, teens are accessing information and pictures instantaneously.  But are they making the right decisions and choices about what they are sharing and participating in while online? With increased access and usage in mobile devices, are you able to monitor everything your teen is doing? As parents, do you feel equipped with enough knowledge to engage your teen in a meaningful dialogue about issues related to online safety? Or better yet, does your teen know how to approach you with questions related to what they are seeing and doing online? This family eCourse is meant to open the dialogue and provide you with information and activities that will allow your family to learn in an engaging manner. Learn more

Next class starts June 3, 2012

Bits and Bytes: Helping Kids Make Smart Choices

In our digital world, kids are accessing information and pictures instantaneously. But are they making the right decisions and choices about what they are sharing and participating in while online? This family eCourse is meant to open the dialogue and provide you with information and activities that will allow your family to learn in an engaging manner. Topics covered will include: Creating Boundaries & Limiting Risks; Email, Chats, Gaming & Online Research for Kids; Cyberbullying; and Social Networks (Facebook, YouTube, etc.). Learn more

Next class starts June 3, 2012

Project-Based Writing

“If it doesn’t exist outside of school, then it isn’t worthy enough to be taught within school.”

Project-Based Writing is an ecourse that focuses on this mantra and the methods that teachers can use to follow through with its promise. Writing is universal, and all subject areas can integrate the different genres in authentic ways to make their content more meaningful.

In this 6-week program, participants will be given examples of project-based writing units across the disciplines, and will be given the opportunity to develop their own unit, receive feedback, and share with others, walking away with multiple units that can be utilized in their classroom both Someday and Monday. Learn more

Next class starts January 28, 2013